Personally I think mumsnet should transition to a non gender specific title (parentsnet was rejected as a name originally because it didn't sound snappy enough). It's name reinforces the idea that parenting is something that is primarily a female domain. If we want more gender equality then we need to tackle societies preconceptions of what parenting is and who is responsible. Mumsnet, with it's large media presence would be in a good place to do this if it wanted.
There was a really interesting article on this in The Guardian a while back by Ally Fogg. He discusses some of these issues much more eloquently than I'm capable of myself, so apologies for the long quote:
This week Duncan Fisher, a founder of the Fatherhood Institute, launches a new website called mumsanddadsnet. The name is a deliberate echo – possibly a sly dig – at the mother of all parenting websites, Mumsnet. The new site's mission statement points out that the online conversation about parenting is divided between mums, on the one hand, and dads (mostly separated ones), on the other. "We are stuck in a paradigm – that mums do parenting and dads help. This idea might suit a lot of people, but it's plain wrong."
Justine Roberts, the founder of Mumsnet, has pointed out, correctly I'm sure, that its Dads section is already the largest specialist area for fathers in British cyberspace. That in itself, perhaps, is the main problem. Dads are tacking themselves on to the efforts of mums as a sideshow and an afterthought. Roberts went on to say "I agree with the principle; it would be nice if dads wanted to identify as dads. But they don't. They identify as men who talk about parenting."
As a proudly self-identifying dad who spends a lot of time talking to other self-identifying dads, this strikes me not only as utterly wrong, but a profoundly harmful projection. The fact that the chief executive of Mumsnet would come out with such an alienating pronouncement represents game, set and match to Duncan Fisher, I think, in the debate as to whether we need less compartmentalisation and factionalism in debates about parenting.
tl;dr Think a dadsnet would be a bad idea and we'd be better off with non gender specific sites.